THOMPSON

THOMPSON, ROBERTTHE GARDENER'S ASSISTANT: A GUIDE TO THE FORMATION AND MANAGEMENT OF THE KITCHEN, FRUIT, AND FLOWER GARDENS...And the Cultivation of Conservatory Greenhouse and Stove Plants; with a Copious Calendar of Gardening Operations. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. Thick large 8vo, coloured plates of flowers and plants, plans for carpet bedding of flowers, black and white engravings of plants, greenhouses, insects, etc., colour frontispiece with inner vertical crease, tissue guards with spotting but plates and text clean. Bound by the publisher (with their binder's ticket to rear inner board) in 19th century half black calf, rubbed